Topic: New York City Solutions
What Mamdani’s Election Can Teach Us About Housing
New York’s Mayor-elect proved that affordability is a top priority for voters. Can American cities make rents lower and also build more housing?
By Bruce Katz, Michael Saadine and Josh Humphries
What PA Dems can Learn from Zohran Mamdani
It’s not the progressive stances of the New York City mayoral primary winner. It’s his practical solutions for low- and middle-income communities that appeal to voters
By Oliver Bateman
Mister Softee, Please Shut Up
A local resident, and her neighbors, have had it with the constant, torturous ice cream truck jingle, not to mention the lack of food safety licenses. Is there anything they can do?
By Kristen Demilio
Cities Will Save The Country
Drexel’s Metro Finance director on the return of “New Localism” in the second age of Trump
By Bruce Katz and Florian Schalliol
Expand — Yes, Expand — Public Transit
New York City, Seattle and Sydney are doubling down on public transportation amid the ongoing work-from-home trend. Why this counterintuitive move is an idea Philly should steal
By Diana Lind
Business as Unusual
In the latest installment of The Citizen’s acclaimed podcast, Kathryn Wylde, CEO of Partnership for New York, shares the secrets to — and power of — harnessing cities’ business communities.
By Jessica Blatt Press
What Can Philly Learn from NYC’s Mayor’s Race?
Our mayoral elections have often tended (lightly anyway) to mirror what happened in New York, Philly 3.0’s engagement editor says. What does this month’s race in NYC mean for Philly?
By Jon Geeting
Moving The Needle on Poverty
New York is the only big American city that has cut its poverty rate. Mayor Bloomberg’s former anti-poverty czar talks about making it happen by taking risks
By Larry Platt
IDNYC
A plan to provide IDs for Philly’s poor and undocumented should take a lesson from New York City
By Hannah Keyser
The New Guard Party Bus
We took a group of young disruptors to Pennsylvania Society…and returned with a heightened sense of possibility
By Larry Platt